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Top 25 Social media marketing agencies based in South Africa
RevenueBase identified 1,255 social media marketing agencies headquartered in South Africa as of September 2026 and tracks 3,471 professional contacts across them, including 568 with verified work emails and 196 with mobile numbers. Johannesburg is the largest hub.
This list covers social media marketing agencies headquartered in South Africa, matched on what each company actually does as described in its own words. Ranked by team size, largest first. Every row shows the company's own description, its RevenueBase Smart Search rating, and when it was last checked. Data refreshed September 6, 2026.
Published by RevenueBase, a B2B data infrastructure company. This list was built with RevenueBase Smart Search, the natural-language company search RevenueBase customers use to build their own targeted lists and unlock verified emails and direct dials at the companies on them. How these lists are built and judged.
The 25 largest social media marketing agencies based in South Africa
Ranked by team size| # | Company | RevenueBase Smart Search | Contacts | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Strong evidence | 75 contacts → | |||
“Engage Video Group is a technology-driven social media video business combining data and creativity to create content people really care about.” Source: company website · checked Sep 6, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 2 | Partial evidence | 38 contacts → | |||
“Red September is an integrated advertising and digital marketing agency built for ambitious brands that want measurable growth, bold creative thinking and high-performance…” Source: company website · checked Sep 6, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 3 | Partial evidence | 38 contacts → | |||
“AOM is a Digital Marketing Agency which operates from Johannesburg South Africa.” Source: company website · checked Sep 6, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 4 | Strong evidence | 36 contacts → | |||
“100 Degrees Online Marketing is a digital media specialist company and one of the leading South African media placement and online marketing agencies.” Source: company website · checked Sep 6, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 5 | Partial evidence | 34 contacts → | |||
“HelloYes Marketing is a global brand, creative, digital and technology-driven agency.” Source: company website · checked Sep 6, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 6 | Partial evidence | 26 contacts → | |||
“Marketing shouldn’t be complicated.” Source: company website · checked Sep 6, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 7 | Strong evidence | 24 contacts → | |||
“Rokkit Digital is a new media marketing agency specialising in digital marketing, website design & development, social media strategy, implementation and community management and…” Source: company website · checked Sep 6, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 8 | Strong evidence | 24 contacts → | |||
“We are a full service social media and creative advertising agency based in Cape Town, South-Africa.” Source: company website · checked Sep 6, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 9 | Partial evidence | 24 contacts → | |||
“We have more than 15 years of combined experience in digital marketing.” Source: company website · checked Sep 6, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 10 | Partial evidence | 23 contacts → | |||
“In today’s digital business world, you need a partner who can help you take advantage of marketing opportunities across a variety of platforms and channels in real-time.” Source: company website · checked Sep 6, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 11 | Partial evidence | 21 contacts → | |||
“Welcome to Hive Digital Media, a dynamic force in the digital landscape born from the rich heritage of Caxton’s long-standing and locally entrenched publications.” Source: company website · checked Sep 6, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 12 | Partial evidence | 20 contacts → | |||
“We understand the predicament of operating a small or medium business – you need to spend on marketing to reach more customers, but you need customers in order to spend.” Source: company website · checked Sep 6, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 13 | Partial evidence | 19 contacts → | |||
“OMM is an award-winning, AI-driven digital marketing agency helping brands grow through strategy.” Source: company website · checked Sep 6, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 14 | Indirect evidence | 17 contacts → | |||
“At The Cheese Has Moved (TCHM), we don't just follow trends, we set them.” Source: company website · checked Sep 6, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 15 | Partial evidence | 16 contacts → | |||
“Kaomi Marketing is a niche team, who have a wealth of experience in performance marketing efficiencies, with a spread portfolio of local and international clients.” Source: company website · checked Sep 6, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 16 | Strong evidence | 16 contacts → | |||
“We’re an integrated digital, social media and PR agency based in Johannesburg and Cape Town, South Africa.” Source: company website · checked Sep 6, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 17 | Partial evidence | 13 contacts → | |||
“Polkadot Digital is a Johannesburg-based digital marketing agency established in 2015, built on one clear principle: marketing should drive measurable business growth.” Source: company website · checked Sep 6, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 18 | Indirect evidence | 13 contacts → | |||
“Magic is the power of apparently influencing events by using mysterious forces.” Source: company website · checked Sep 6, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 19 | Indirect evidence | 12 contacts → | |||
“By definition, a cartel is an association with the purpose of restricting competition and keeping the prices at a high level.” Source: company website · checked Sep 6, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 20 | Partial evidence | 12 contacts → | |||
“B Online is a young and innovative online marketing and design agency.” Source: company website · checked Sep 6, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 21 | Indirect evidence | 11 contacts → | |||
“Wassp has been around since 1998!” Source: company website · checked Sep 6, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 22 | Strong evidence | 11 contacts → | |||
“uDigital is a leading creative and data driven marketing agency in Johannesburg specialising in high-performance media and digital business consulting services.” Source: company website · checked Sep 6, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 23 | Strong evidence | 10 contacts → | |||
“Scout PR & Social Media provides a cross-platform and integrated communications service spanning social, digital media and innovative marketing management.” Source: company website · checked Sep 6, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 24 | Partial evidence | 10 contacts → | |||
“As an Online Marketing Company we leverage the power of the internet to significantly grow your business, utilizing holistic strategies that are 100% measurable, sustainable and…” Source: company website · checked Sep 6, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 25 | Strong evidence | 10 contacts → | |||
“We specialize in brand building and digital marketing, with services including design, social media, website development, email marketing and paid advertising.” Source: company website · checked Sep 6, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
RevenueBase Smart Search
RevenueBase Smart Search assesses information from a company’s LinkedIn profile, information supplied directly by the company, its website, and other publicly available sources. It uses that information to rate how closely the company relates to this list’s category: social media marketing agencies. Every row carries its rating and the description the rating was read from, so each one can be checked rather than taken on trust.
- Strong evidence
- The company's own public description of its business names social media marketing agencies.
- Partial evidence
- Its own public description names part of social media marketing agencies, so it works in or next to the category without describing itself that way.
- Indirect evidence
- The description shown does not name social media marketing agencies. The match rests on the rest of the company's public profile rather than the one sentence quoted here, so this is the rating to check first.
RevenueBase Smart Search is how these lists are built: RevenueBase's data engine and AI assemble the companies that match a category defined in a user's own words, so a list can be about what companies actually do rather than about whichever industry code they were filed under.
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Social media marketing agencies based in South Africa at a glance
As of Sep 6, 2026Companies by employee count
Freshness & accuracy
How recently the business emails on this list were verified
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How this list was built
Company categories are rarely black and white. RevenueBase reads each company's own description of its business to decide whether it belongs among social media marketing agencies, so some rows will be adjacent to the category rather than pure plays. The description and RevenueBase Smart Search rating on every row are there so you can check each match yourself.
- Source
- The RevenueBase company graph: 60 million companies and 398.9 million professional contacts resolved from primary sources, queried with RevenueBase Smart Search, the natural-language company search available to every RevenueBase user.
- What qualifies
- Companies headquartered in South Africa whose own description of what they do matches “social media marketing agencies”. Matching reads each company's description, not its industry code or its name.
- RevenueBase Smart Search
- RevenueBase Smart Search is how this list is assembled and how each row is rated. RevenueBase's data engine and AI assess a company's LinkedIn profile, information supplied directly by the company, its website and other publicly available information, then relate it to a category defined in a user's own words. Each row is rated strong evidence (its own description names social media marketing agencies), partial evidence (it names part of the category) or indirect evidence (the description shown names none of it and the match rests on the rest of the company's profile). The description supporting each rating is quoted on the row.
- What we exclude
- Companies whose own description does not clearly place them among social media marketing agencies, and records with no verified work email. Companies headquartered outside South Africa are excluded even when they keep an office there.
- Match quality
- In blind human judging of this matching method, 86% of matched companies were on target. Expect roughly 1 in 7 rows to be adjacent to the category rather than a pure play. Every row shows the company's own description and its RevenueBase Smart Search rating so you can judge each match yourself. Read the full methodology: how the lists are built, how the judging worked, and what the figure means.
- Ranking
- Team size, largest first: companies are ordered by the number of professionals RevenueBase tracks at each one. Employee ranges shown are reported bands, for context.
- Verification
- Every listed company carries at least one verified work email, 568 across the full list. Contacts re-verify on a rolling cadence, and each contact's own verification date is shown inside RevenueBase.
- Refresh
- This page's figures were pulled from the company graph on September 6, 2026. Lists refresh periodically as the graph is re-checked.
- Corrections
- Wrong category, wrong headquarters, or a company that has closed? Use “Report an issue” on any row. Reports go to the RevenueBase Data Team and feed back into the company graph.
Social media marketing agencies by metro
- Social media marketing agencies in Johannesburg287
- Social media marketing agencies in Cape Town267
- Social media marketing agencies in Pretoria107
- Social media marketing agencies in Durban48
- Social media marketing agencies in Sandton32
Frequently asked
What is RevenueBase Smart Search?
RevenueBase Smart Search is how RevenueBase decides which companies belong on this list and how strongly each one fits. Its data engine and AI assess a company's LinkedIn profile, information supplied directly by the company, its website and other publicly available information, then relate it to the category the list is about. Each row is rated strong evidence when the company's own description names social media marketing agencies, partial evidence when it names part of the category, and indirect evidence when the description shown names none of it and the match rests on the rest of the company's profile.
How many social media marketing agencies are there based in South Africa?
RevenueBase identified 1,255 social media marketing agencies headquartered in South Africa as of September 2026, matched on each company's own description of what it does rather than its industry code.
What is the largest company on this list?
Engage Video Group, headquartered in Cape Town, tops this list with the largest team on record.
Which city has the most social media marketing agencies?
Johannesburg leads with 287 headquartered companies, followed by Cape Town (267) and Pretoria (107).
How do I get contact information for these companies?
A free RevenueBase account lets you run this exact search and work the top results, verified emails and direct dials included. Upgrading unlocks all 568 verified decision-maker contacts tracked across these 1,255 companies.
How current is this list?
The list refreshes periodically as the company graph is re-checked. This page's figures were pulled on September 6, 2026.
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RevenueBase is a B2B data infrastructure company. Its company graph covers 60 million companies and 398.9 million professional contacts, with emails verified on a rolling cadence rather than scraped once and left to decay. These company lists are generated directly from that graph with RevenueBase Smart Search, the same natural-language company search every RevenueBase user has: describe a market in plain words, get the companies that match, and add verified emails and direct dials for the people at them. It is the same data that powers RevenueBase's B2B data products, and a free account includes 500 credits to start. How these lists are built and judged.
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